Re: System Restore using 129GB of 150GB drive

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Hi,

Set the amount of disk space used to hold restore points as Ron suggest. You
will also want to set System Restore to monitor the Windows partition ONLY. Are
there other partitions being monitored by System Restore?

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Regards,
Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User
http://bertk.mvps.org
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"kookaburra2" wrote
Thanks for the replies [Jerry, Larry, Ron]. I will try those things but
before I delete the evidence I was rather hoping to discover why it is not
working properly in the first place. Not much time left though coz my disk
will soon fill up with System Restore stuff.
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K2


"kookaburra2" wrote:

My PC = Windows XP pro SP2; Norton Antivirus 2004; plenty of software but
nothing special.

In my "_restore{..." folder there are 110 objects using up 129GB. Mostly
they are RP335 thru RP440 (26Aug06 thru 13Nov06), and a couple of other tiny
files. I used the vbs scripts to check settings - they are system restore
life is 90 days and system restore point frequency is 24 hours. The disk
space usage is set to 12% (17966MB). Many (a bit over half) of the RPxxx
folders contain among other only small things just one large file, called
Annnnnnn.SYS (n's are digits), which is invariably 1533.1 MB. A few (13) of
the RPxxx folders contain several (up to 5) such A*.sys files of that same
size.

For some reason restore points are not being deleted when they should. I
have no idea why, but would appreciate help. AFAIK there was nothing special
on or around 26Aug06.

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K2


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